Archives - 28 February 2017, Tuesday

Secondly, not many children want to take over their parents’ hawker stall. (Coffee Break was established by their father at Boon Tat Street, which was later re-located to Amoy Street Food Centre. Their grandfather also owned a coffee shop called San Hai Yuan more than 80 years ago. A ...

The texture of the white curry was thicker and creamier due to the addition of Hokkaido milk, but surprisingly tasted grainy and powdery at the same time – as though it was a mix off the shelf and not properly stirred.

Raising kids in Singapore is not a cheap affair and a family meal can be costly, especially when you bring them to a good restaurant; even kids’ meals at many eateries do not come cheap.We often see parents sharing their mains with their little ones as children can get quite fussy ove...

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25 Degrees Burgers & Liquor Bar —from the famous Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel in Los Angeles—officially opens in Singapore. A cult favourite among the Hollywood A-list, 25 Degrees Burgers and Liquor Bar brings its signature West Coast flavour to Singapore. On the menu, there are five bur...

It was several months prior to the the Concorde’s flight and just four weeks into school, that I would find myself skipping classes for what was to be the highlight of the year and of my childhood: the visit of the Queen, Elizabeth II of England, Price Phillip, and Princess Anne, to t...

One of New York’s most celebrated chefs, Jean-Georges Vongerichten, opens The Dempsey Cookhouse & Bar at COMO Dempsey on March 3rd 2017. Inspired by Dempsey Hill’s natural surroundings and Singapore’s multi-cultural and cosmopolitan background, chef Jean-Georges has created an effortl...

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Located along Amoy Street, yet another Korean seafood tower concept restaurant K-Tower has joined in the latest Korean food trend in Singapore. With the restaurant promising a fresh gastronomical seafood journey, you can now satisfy your seafood cravings at K-Tower without burning a h...

A few years ago, Fu Lin Yong Tofu, now known as Fu Lin Bar & Kitchen, revamped their concept and became one of the many hipster eateries along Telok Ayer Street. Between 10am to 3pm, the usual yong tau foo is served. After 3pm, the menu features Asian Fusion Tapas, along with house wi...

If you like matcha, tiramisu or anything remotely related to desserts, this is something you want to look out for. Japanese Restaurant Maccha House Singapore will be bringing in the “Uji Maccha Tiramisu” from their flagship store in Kyoto, Japan on March 1, 2017. What sets this tirami...

has opened at Singapore Changi Airport, Terminal 3 (T3). This is Wolfgang Puck's first premium casual offering here and it joins his fine-dining operations Spago and one-Michelin star CUT, both at Marina Bay Sands. Travellers can enjoy the celebrity chef’s interpretation of global com...

Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong was recently interviewed on BBC HARDtalk, a current affairs interview programme that subjects its interviewees to nearly 30 minutes of tough questioning by its current host, Stephen Sackur. The British news network has provided several teaser excerpts fr...

I was told that there is a handsome hawker at Ah Ter Teochew Fish Ball Noodles at Amoy Food Centre , so I made my way down hoping to meet him. Haha the part on the handsome hawker is true because Gilbert an ex-trader was the winner of the Straits Times's Most Handsome Hawker in 2005. ...

Good morning all! Ah pek lim kopi, all ready for another exciting week. Plenty of important macro data from Australia, Japan & the US to look out for this week, including a slew of Feb PMI releases. And then there's Mr Trump's first speech to Congress (Wed morning Asian time). For Spo...

Exciting nature activities specially for kids are lined up for the coming school holidays! Lots of fun ways to discover and enjoy Singapore's biodiversity! Many are free. Kids at Ubin Jetty. Explore our threatened forests of MacRitchie, volunteer with the whole family at Ubin or explo...

“Those who sit in cars don’t know the joys of riding a motorcycle. Riding keeps the senses wide awake as you move through 360space with the wind in your face and the hum of your smooth running bike. You are one with the machine, it’s every mood you feel. You are constantly scanning we...

On Feb. 27, photos of an abandoned, dirtied Porsche was uploaded by Facebook user Car Jay to Facebook group Singapore Exotic Car Spotter. While the exact model cannot be ascertained, it’s more likely than not one of the rarer Porsches, according to netizens who also claim the vehicle ...

GrabHitch is a social ride-sharing initiative launched by Grab to match journeys between private car drivers and commuters heading the same way at the same time. Drivers choose to share their rides with passengers and get paid a basic fare that covers their petrol costs, while passeng...

Xiaomi just announced that it will be making its own chipset, Surge S1. This makes Xiaomi the 4th smartphone manufacturer in the world to design and develop its own chipset in-house. Surge S1 uses a high-performance octa-core ARM Cortex-A53 64-bit processor with four 2.2GHz cores and ...

Not long ago, there was an Irish exchange student who wrote a reflection piece on what life was like in SMU and Singapore compared to Ireland. Her piece was considered too shallow , and excessively generalised Singapore. Now, another expat, YouTube user Angmolia, chronicled his experi...

Sometimes all you need is one beautiful top to make yourself realise that you probably shouldn’t have blown your last month’s fashion budget on cheaper, trendy tops – oops! Over the past few years, I’ve tried to be a bit more considerate about what I buy. I’m trying to stick to a few ...

In the age of internet romance, nothing is impossible, much less inconceivable. Virtual girlfriends/boyfriends are fast becoming run-of-the-mill, with hardly anyone batting an eyelid at the mention of them (save for the inward judging). What happens, however, when your virtual girlfri...

It is heartening to see the joyful faces of the kids in our Root n Wings project again. It’s been just over a year since they moved into their new premises and things have really settled down. You would have recalled that when we first met them in 2015 , the kids were still living in ...

Read this article on ST and felt really sorry for not only the lady and her new baby, but us women as well. Women of today are overburdened by expectations from the society. If you are not married by a certain age, you are either spending too much time working to prove yourself or dee...

A segment of my articles are about my musings on listed business prospecting such as this. I do not tell you this is a good buy or you are suppose to sell. I put out the information in the hope that, you can contrast the way you prospect these business with how I do it, and perhaps ca...

Creative Construction with Blueprints is all about being interactive! The front of a interactive card is just the beginning, there is always a little surprise hiding under the flap! MFT's has a few really great interactive BP sets-set 28 is my fave. I put the party on the front of my ...

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